Advanced
Placement Preparatory English 11 (AP Prep)
Mr.
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1) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Students will read and analyze Golding’s classic novel with the dual goals of understanding it on a literal level (the stranding of the boys) and on a symbolic level (the structures of civilization). We will spend time analyzing the various literary methods and devices used by Golding. Both in small groups and as a class, students will discuss the novel’s connections to their own lives and to our modern-day world. To assess their growth as students of English and as writers, students will complete both an in-class essay and a comprehensive final unit exam. This unit’s scope will include Classical Greek mythological allusions (Prometheus, Apollo, Dionysus), connections to contemporary art and literature (Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis and Iron Maiden’s “Lord of the Flies”), and exploration of the novel through the Freudian concepts of the Id, the Ego, and the Superego.
2) Early English Language: Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales. Students will read and analyze the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Students will analyze the various literary methods used in each work, including the epic tradition, the frame story, and heroic couplets. Both in small groups and as a class, students will discuss the poems’ connections to their own lives and to our modern-day world. These connections will be made in the analysis of “The Ballad of Davy Crocket” and in the students composing their own Modern-Day Pilgrim writing assignment. To further demonstrate their growth as students of English, students will complete a comprehensive final unit exam that addresses the poems, the development of the English language, and the respective historical periods of each work.
3) The Evolution of Drama. Antigone, Macbeth, and Death of a Salesman. Students will explore the development of drama from its earliest roots in ancient Greece (Antigone by Sophocles) through the Elizabethan Age in England (Macbeth by William Shakespeare) up to contemporary times (Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller). Students will analyze the various literary techniques used by each playwright, including dramatic elements, tragic characters, and conflict. Both in small groups and as a class, students will discuss the plays’ connections to their own lives and to our modern-day world. At the end of the unit, students will compose an out-of-class essay analyzing the plays and the evolution of drama, as well as complete a final unit exam that addresses the plays, the evolution of drama, and the respective historical periods of each work.
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1) Critical Approaches to Literature.
2) John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
3) Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
4) Poetry.
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